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The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.

Alan Turing

Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.
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Exercise Intuition Mathematics Reason
Programming is a skill best acquired by practice and example rather than from books.
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Book Practice Skill Technology
If a machine is expected to be infallible, it cannot also be intelligent.
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Expectation Hope Intelligence Technology
These disturbing phenomena [Extra Sensory Perception] seem to deny all our scientific ideas. How we should like to discredit them! Unfortunately the statistical evidence, at least for telepathy, is overwhelming.
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Evidence Ideas Science
Instead of trying to produce a programme to simulate the adult mind, why not rather try to produce one which simulates the child’s? If this were then subjected to an appropriate course of education one would obtain the adult brain.
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Children Education Mindset Technology
Science is a differential equation. Religion is a boundary condition.
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Boundary Mathematics Religion Science
I’m afraid that the following syllogism may be used by some in the future. Turing believes machines think Turing lies with men Therefore machines do not think Yours in distress, Alan.
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Future Lie Myself Scare Yourself
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
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Believe Imagination Inspirational Motivational People
One day ladies will take their computers for walks in the park and tell each other, “My little computer said such a funny thing this morning”.
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Funny Future Morning Technology Walk Woman
The Exclusion Principle is laid down purely for the benefit of the electrons themselves, who might be corrupted (and become dragons or demons) if allowed to associate too freely.
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Freedom Principle Science
The original question, ‘Can machines think?’ I believe to be too meaningless to deserve discussion.
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Believe Deserve Technology Thinking
No, I’m not interested in developing a powerful brain.
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Development Myself Powerful
My little computer said such a funny thing this morning.
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Funny Morning Technology
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.
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Distance Need Travel Work
We may hope that machines will eventually compete with men in all purely intellectual fields.
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Competition Hope Intellectual Men Technology
A man provided with paper, pencil, and rubber, and subject to strict discipline, is in effect a universal machine.
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Discipline Education Men

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